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Ok so he's in Epsom, if that is near any of you? May be a whole rear end now too hopefully won't be too much of a hassle...

Oh man thanks for the offers I'll find out which area. OS is truly a community of Gcs!

I have tentatively bought a diff and some struts from a fellow up in Auckland and was hoping one of the OS Gc's would be able to pick them up for me and possibly hold them for a small amount of time til I figure out the cheapest way to get them to chch. The diff is out of an R31 skyline and is IRS so it's not massive and the struts aren't that big either. Any help would be much appreciated. Cheers

It is about 150mm just the angle of the photo makes it look further back, Also after a but of searching the distance from the UJ has been increased to 250mm for driveshaft hoops Thanks Clint will do!!

Ok so after a bit head scratching and looking at how other people have done there hoops (namely Beaver) Iv'e come up with driveshaft hoop mk2. Let me know what you think, it's only tack welded at the moment don't want to go all out if it's not up to standard.

Cheers Clint, that was basically for test fitting purposes, don't have a hell of a lot room to play with down there so have already cut down the flat bar that I've tacked on quite a bit. Once it's all mocked up it will be getting welded properly by a good mate who has done a heaps of work to this car already.

Like this And this was a just a quick mock up to better explain my first post (excuse the average welding first time using my mig I've had for a few years)

Not sure your getting what I mean I'll post a pic soon once I've got it tacked up to explain better. But if yours was welded and you got cert then sounds like I've got nothing to worry about!

Hi Clint just a quick question about drive shaft hoops, Can they be welded at all?? I have the two 180 degree bent flat bars already from a kit but the not 90 degree flat bar that mounts to the floor pan and the hoop it self so was wondering if I am able to weld two pieces together to make a 90 degree piece (I wont be doing the welding myself just tacking it in place) Any help much appreciated!

Cold potato sald soup

I'm in!

Keen to catch up for a beer at Smash!

You can get them from, Appco, BNT etc but pricey!

Yeah!

All sorted! The spline was engaged, a bit of thread rod either side and my mate and I tightening the nuts up simultaneously did the trick!

Jesse from Saeco sorted me with the speedo drive seal thanks again man! Just need an O ring which my mate will get for me. Who needs a press when you have an angle grinder?? Got the old release bearing off and new one installed and fitted to gearbox! Started fitting the gearbox to the engine, I'm about 80% sure that the spline is located but I can't seem to get box fully fitted :/ I need longer bolts for the bellhousing too as the manual housing is thicker than the auto, will got to Blacks tomorrow and get some longer ones will they need to be high tensile?????? Shit Labour weekend is coming up fast, going to need to put in some big hours in the next few weeks! Will buy new shock inserts after work, order ali radiator and a few other things too. Made a start on fitting the JDM seat belts tonight as well gonna be so lush!

Almost forgot to mention that the spigot bush is also fitted! Went in with no issues, unlike the one in the CA :/

Ok so got stuck in again on saturday and got the clutch plate aligned and fitted, also while I had her jacked up I thought it was a good idea to commence weight reduction stage 1 haha and remove the LPG copper line that ran from the engine bay to just by the fuel tank. Maybe I can get a few bucks from it?? Fitted new seals to the front and rear of the gearbox, took a rather artistic shot of the rear seal if I don't say so myself. Also gave the box a good clean with some degreaser although it's still a little grubby but much better than it was. Picked up my brand new clutch fork boot from Scott at Nissan on friday, last one in the country stoked!! Got a speedo drive seal from Saeco but it's only slightly too small so will take that back tomorrow. So I'm pretty much ready to put the box in but can't put oil in til I get the speedo seal sorted but so much closer! I also have my eye on a few bits which I hope to acquire with the payout from leaving chch metal finishers

Woohoo!! My mate John came over this afternoon/evening and gave me a hand with getting the last bellhousing bolt. After fluffing about with spanners for a while we did up a couple of the bolts up around it and put heaps of extensions together which totalled about a metre and a half long we got it first crack!! So stoked to get that bolt out, so we kept going and got the slush box out, put the manual sandwhich plate on and torqued up the flywheel I left the spigot bush at home so couldn't go much further but very happy with what got done tonight. So much closer to getting the 5 speed in ready for Datsun nationals

Tidied up my gear stick as it looks like at some point the rod has been been bent a bit and the threaded part welded back on. Also re-chromed it because I could(although not for long) Saw Brock this afternoon and got a new clutch slave, spigot bush and front and rear gearbox seals. Will have to got to Saeco for the speedo drive o-ring and seal. One slight issue I've encountered though is the new slave doesn't come with a pin to engage the clutch fork, I thought that the one from the R30 I wrecked would have one but nope not even a boot so anyone got an old slave cylinder lying around I can pinch the pin off??

So been getting a few things sorted for the manwell conversion. Cleaned up the rust off my flywheel bolts and sprayed them with CRC in a snaplock bag, Bart also took my flywheel in to get machined(chur Bart!). Also on Bart's recommendations I have taken out the front and rear seals from my gearbox and the speedo drive o-ring to be replaced with new ones. Finally managed to get some 910 front springs from Skutaman to lower the front but they are a bigger diameter than the R30 springs :/ I may just cut the ones I have and reshape the end, depending on how much time and $$ I have left before the Akaroa cruise. So far I've dropped out the driveshaft and made a start on dropping the gearbox things are happening!

Was good yarning with you on the drive there and back man. If I'm ever in your hood there will be alcohol consumed and more yarns!

What a lush weekend!! So many beards, so much meat all the GC's. Bairdy I don't think I've laughed so hard in a loong time good job keeping the masses entertained! Good to know that we are welcome back for next year can't wait! Kudos to Karl for all his mad organising skills in making this happen again. Felixx you did a bloody good job of carving that hog delish! I have a video of some sweet analogue synth sounds from that contraption Aaron found haha, Will post it later.

Got new brake hose(was given the wrong one at first) fitted it up bled brakes with Karls vacuum bleeder went in for wof re-check passed! Gave the inside and out a good clean today so I'm all ready for this weekend. Can't wait to start driving this again. With the new door window seals there is no wind noise soooooo quiet! I was going to take a photo of the wof sticker but it's right under the tint band and it's super hard to see hahaha All I need for the manual swap is spigot bush, new slave and rubber clutch hose. Will also get new tie rod ends for each side and fit powdet coated steering components. I'm going to look into getting an alloy rad as the core in mine is poked much cheaper to get an ali rad off the tard than a re-core!